yeah i'm not crazy about anything. i don't love atlantis, but i don't feel strongly enough to fight against it

i don't think it's washington/atlantis as a combo, but i could see any other combo from the words we've mentioned

and DZ saying tablet might just be a general movie connection? idk

I don’t think DZ is saying tablet is a generic movie reference like you watch movies on a tablet. I think it’s an Indiana Jones connection. He’s an archaeologist and I’m sure there were tablets with inscriptions and **** in some of the movies, I just can’t remember any specifically.

makes sense

i'd agree to just about anything here. don't think there is a way to really solve it

jet shouldn't be theirs, but that doesn't really help that much

and if we're going the full movie route, tablet/atlantis seems fine

I think I’m good with tablet next rather than Atlantis. My guess for why DZ suggested it has convinced me.

will wait for DZ again, but i'm good with it

Yes sorry!

Long weekend gsmoly things

And yes- tablet being an archaeological relic was my thinking ��

Then atlantis just makes sense

tablet
Atlantis

tablet

sign - 6
CPR - 3
cruise - 3
Indy - 4

Atlantis
Ghost
Jet
Mint
Needle
Nut
Pumpkin
Server
Tail
Washington
Well

Post
Note
Hospital
Train
Ship
Trip
Missile

Disease
Beat
Chest
Wake
Smuggler
Aztec
Tablet

Thanksgiving - 2

Pumpkin and either Server or Washington.

The non-pumpkin word is an overlap with sign, but unfortunately both server and Washington were in the mix for that.

I do have a way I'm leaning, but I'll let others comment.

I was kind of torn when first saw the clue

Pumpkin I guess is the sure one? It stuck out to me even though it's more Halloween, but I do see orangy stuff and feel pilgrims + pumpkins is some kind of combo. Is there some kind of pumpkin dish served? I'd like to feel better about this one

Because I also thought about Tail. I'm still mostly w u EB but would feel good to rule other combos out. And I also have a thought on those 2 but will wait and not bias Neil

If Thanksgiving is the word it's because you want something that isn't a Halloween followup.

So while I'd normally look at Nut or Mint to go with the Thanksgiving food theme, I think you drop those.

And you go for the Thanksgiving turkey pardoning, and say Washington?

A turkey with a big Tail is a prominent image in Thanksgiving pictures of course.

But I can see Washington here.

Well that certainly didn't simplify lol

Neil if you had to pick 2 words here what would you vote?

This is actually quite tricky

And I'll throw in my mini slam of - disease and ghost were both obv wrong which I tried to talk us out of!

Urgh this is legit kinda tricky now

I do think it's somewhere in Pumpkin/Tail/Server/Washington but how to decide...

Only 6 combos and I don't think some like pumpkin + tail is ever the answer

Aka pumpkin/tail are mutually exclusive, and we probably want pumpkin out of those 2

I don't wanna influence while we're still discussing but I guess I have a vote in

Pick two? Pumpkin/Washington

To me Server implies eating out, and that's generally the opposite of what's happening at Thanksgiving.

Ya ya that's not an unreasonable combo

If you were spymaster do you have any other ideas if you had to clue for server + pumpkin or server + Washington - (thinking of it from D1 perspective)?

Cruise could be a last name like Washington so could be capitalized imo and it wasn't. Perhaps D1 didn't want us to start thinking of Tom Cruise movies or last names and stuff which would lose some Washington equity. Maybe D1 fired it as it got 3 and was a good clue and the extra step idk if anyone woulda really thought to the final turn so could gotten loose

Idk tho, D1 typically a very tight(on point) guesser/spymaster so I think I'd need to hear some other clue possibilites to get me off pumpkin/server

How does Tom Cruise net you Washington? Aren't his Mission Impossible movies traveling all over the world?

Server + Pumpkin I might do pie.

Yeah thinking about it, an eat-at-home holiday is how you very specifically avoid Server, isn't it?

Mmm you make very good points...pie could hit some other stuff but could work as a thanksgiving/server combo so does discount a little bit imo. There's chances D1 thinks it hits nut + pumpkin or something but that could be "food" or "pie" like you say or some other word like seeds or banana so perhaps you are right on this

Cruise could hit Washington because they're both last names. It wasn't capitalized so makes me discount it some - but it's subtle and setting up for a final turn so I won't rule it out entirely(Washington being correct)but it does make me want to rule out other possibilities before guessing this combo

Do you think pie - 2 would hit Nut at all?

I don't believe something like Mint is ours, this seems workoutable

Haha I knew this wasn't gonna be an easy 2!

Are we still looking for a sign word, or do we think ship and trip were the other two?

I do think Ship was one. I think we still need a word with some equity, D1 could have also done like a halfy where there's some equity for multiple words

I think pie *could* get you nut via pecan pie. But it's not obvious.